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26 December 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up. It is for reference purposes only.]

Each child is a new hope and a divine hope. Through each child god tries to bring the real man into the world again. Millions of times he fails, but he never loses hope. Only once in a while does he succeed: with a Jesus, with a Buddha, with a Zarathustra; otherwise he fails. But his faith in man is tremendous. He trusts that sooner or later everybody is going to become the real, that the phony will disappear from the world.

Life is more like magic than mathematics. It is a mystery, insoluble, unfathomable, inexhaustible.

Science tries to demystify it. Hence as science has become more and more powerful, people have become more and more irreligious, for the simple reason that they have started thinking that they already know what it is all about. And they know not.

Science gives only facts, not truth; it only talks about objects. But the real phenomenon is your interior subjectivity, your consciousness, and science is absolutely dumb about that.

Not to accept its defeat, it goes on denying it. But it cannot deny it. Even the

scientist knows perfectly well that he is, and he is not an object. In fact, without him there would be no science. Without the observer there would be nothing observed; the object can exist only because there is a subject.

That inner subjectivity is a magical phenomenon, it is unbelievable. One can experience it and one can be in tremendous awe. That awe is religion, that wonder is religion.

Religion fills your life with more and more mystery. Even things that were never mysteries start turning out to be mysteries. A rose flower, a pebble on the shore, a bird on the wing -- everything becomes mystery.

Science demystifies, religion gives you back the whole mystery of life. Sannyas is an entry into the magic world of religion.

Deva means divine. Garimo means glory, splendour.

It is not apparent. If we look from the outside man seems to be just another animal, maybe with a little more evolved a mechanism, but nothing else. There seems to be no gap; from the outside there seems to be not much difference between the ape and the man. If there is any difference it is of quantity, not of quality.

But this is only an apparent thing, this is just because we go on seeing things from the outside.

If we really want to know man in his absolute glory we have to look from within. Man can only be known from within because man has a within. That within is called the soul. A chair is a chair, it has no within; hence it is a thing, it has no soul.

Man has a soul. He is not only the without. The without is only periphery. The real thing is within, the real treasure is within. Hence, by observing man's behaviour we cannot come to conclusions about man.

And that's what so-called scientific psychology is doing all over the world, from Pavlov to Skinner. All the behaviourists are watching man's behaviour -- and man is not in his behaviour. Deep inside himself he is a watcher, a witness. He himself can watch his own behaviour, he can see his own thoughts moving, he

can see his own body acting, walking. He can see himself; that is one of the most important things to remember: man can watch himself. And that is the key secret. The moment you start watching yourself you become aware of great splendour, of great glory. Slowly slowly you are transformed into an infinite light, infinite 1/08/07

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Meditation is a bridge from the periphery to the centre. Sannyas is a commitment, a commitment to discover yourself, a commitment to make self- discovery the central focus of your life. And if you are really decisive, the very decision starts the process of transformation.

There is a great difference between longing and desire. Desire is of the mind, longing is of the heart.

Desire is greed, longing is not greed. Desire is never fulfilled, it cannot be fulfilled; it always goes on asking for more. But longing can be fulfilled.

Everything else that you want in life is a desire. Only when you start longing do you start moving towards god. Only god can be longed for, everything else is a desire. God cannot be desired because he can never be made an object of your thoughts, imagination, ego.

When all these have disappeared, when you are no more functioning as a head, when you are overflowing with love, then suddenly, as if a lotus has opened in your heart, a longing opens up. That longing is fragrant, that longing in itself is a tremendous joy. Only that longing can bring one to the infinite, to the divine. Remember the difference: one has to become desireless in order to become a longing for god.

Man is born to be a song, to be a dance, to be a celebration. That is his birthright. But the society, the church, the state all start manipulating our natural spontaneous being into something artificial; they start perverting us for their own

ends. They don't want you to be natural beings. Unfortunately we have not yet been able to create a natural society, a society which allows everybody to be natural and spontaneous, which not only allows, but helps, teaches.

On the contrary every society hinders your spontaneity. It is suspicious of spontaneity. It does not trust nature, it trusts nurture. It does not trust your heart, it trusts your head because the heart is unpredictable.

The head is predictable because the head is just a biocomputer. Just as you feed a computer you feed the head. That's what our schools, colleges and universities are for: feeding the biocomputers. They feed you, then for the whole of your life you go on repeating whatsoever has been fed in. They reduce you to gramophone records and then all your life is nothing but 'his master's voice'!

That's why we go on missing our natural joy, our natural flowering: we go on missing the song that we have come to sing. That is the only thing that can make you contented. Remember it, and slowly slowly make every effort to come out of the bondage that has been created by others for you. One has to be very skillful, intelligent, to come out of the bondage. That's the whole work of a sannyasin: it is a kind of undoing. Whatsoever the society has done to you has to be undone so that you can be your natural self again, as you were before you were born. Zen people call it the original face -- and that is your song, that is your bliss, that is your truth!

Everyone is incomparable, everyone is unique. No two individuals are alike -- that's the beauty of this existence. What to say about human beings? -- you cannot find two pebbles on the whole face of the earth absolutely alike; you cannot find two leaves on the whole of the earth absolutely alike. God never repeats.

God is not an assembly line, he is a creator; and a creator never repeats, he always brings in something new.

Each moment is new, each day is new, each person is new. Hence to compare is one of the most stupid things one can do. And we are all taught to compare. We are continuously comparing ourselves either as being superior to others or as being inferior to others. Because of this nonsense of comparison we have created two complexes: the superiority complex and the inferiority complex. And everybody suffers from either the one or the other. It is very rare to find a person

who is neither suffering from superiority complex nor from inferiority complex, who simply is whosoever he is, incomparably, uniquely himself.

That has to be the way of the sannyasin. Then great joy arises. Then great is the benediction because all psychological complexes start disappearing, a great clarity happens, all clouds disperse and the sun shines so brightly. Life takes on a totally new colour, a new shape, a new fragrance. It starts moving in a new direction.

The mind which is jealous, envious, ambitious, greedy, violent, is bound to be bitter because these are all poisons. The moment you drop all these poisons your whole being becomes full of a sweetness. Then love is there, compassion is there, sharing is there, the joy of life is there, gratitude is there, prayer is there; these are all sweet phenomena. And the sweeter you become, the closer you come to god; the more bitter you are, the farther away you are.

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So let this be the criterion: judge whatsoever you are doing by whether it is helping to make you more bitter or helping to make you more sweet, whether it will release poisons into your being or nectar. All depends on you.

Your whole life is your own creation. There is no fate -- nobody decides for you. It is totally your responsibility: you can become a sweet flower, a lotus, or you can become a bitter, poisonous phenomenon.

There are two paths to come to oneself... because we have gone too far away from ourselves. Of course it is only in a dream that we have gone too far away, so we have to follow a dream path to come back.

One path is of meditation and the other is of love. Remember both remedies are as false as the disease, but a false disease needs a false medicine. We have gone far away in dreams, we have to be brought back home; of course we will have to follow a dream path.

Meditation is for a few people who find themselves incapable of conceiving what love is. And if you cannot conceive what love is there is no way to explain it to you; it is not something that can be taught. And there are people who intuitively understand what love is. They don't ask what it is, they know it already.

The path of love is for the second type. You belong to the second type.

Meditation can be taught, love cannot be taught. Meditation is a science, it is a methodology, but love is just a feeling, and you cannot make a science out of feelings. At the most it is an art, or even better: it is just a knack.

It is already there -- I can see it. All that is needed is support the right soil, the right atmosphere. And that's what sannyas is. We support meditators, we support lovers. So whatsoever is needed... If the plant needs more manure or more water we supply it.

All that you need is more clarity about love, more opportunity to be loving. Remember that it is love that will bring you back home, so focus yourself on love. Even meditation will only help you to become clear about love. So I am not saying that you are not to meditate; meditate! -- But meditation will only give you more insight into love. I also tell meditators to love, because love helps them to become more deeply meditative.

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